Miscellaneous Mentions

"We have a Southern democracy, a Western democracy and an Eastern democracy. We have a rural democracy and a labor democracy. We have an agricultural democracy and an industrial democracy. We have a Protestant democracy and a Catholic democracy.

"So long as we have all these branches and divisions, we are not a Democratic party at all."--Senator Copeland, Democrat of New York, at Kansas City, Mo.

The U. S. Treasury has been swamped with requests for contributions to help build a Negro Church in Oklahoma, to help a minister trying to make a living in Michigan, to help this worthy cause, to help that worthy person. Why has it been presumed that the Treasury might give away money freely? Because the last Congress passed a law increasing Congressmen's salaries from $7,500 to $10,000 a year and some Congressmen talked of refusing the increase. The Comptroller General ruled that they had to take their monthly pay checks at the $10,000 rate, but that they might return the difference to the Treasury if they chose. Of the 531 Congressmen and Senators, only one has sent back the difference. Every month after the pay checks are sent out, he returns a check for $208.33. It is a point of honor with him. His father, John Randolph Tucker, onetime Representative, once refused a similar salary increase and had himself especially exempted from taking it in the appropriation bill. So Representative Henry

St. George Tucker of Lexington, Va., gives the Government $208.33 monthly and 530 others do not.

At Pikeville, Ky., a U. S. Representative was arrested on a warrant charging drunkenness. A deputy sheriff who made the arrest said he found the Representative in a downtown building only partially dressed. In court, the Representative called his accuser a liar and, according to the judge, used profanity. So he was sentenced to ten hours in jail and a $10 fine. The jail sentence was reduced to four hours at the request of his wife and physician.

He is Representative John W. Langley. He was arrested last year in Washington, also on a charge of drunkenness. He was convicted, last year, of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law and is under sentence to serve a term in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Another similar charge is pending against him. He was reflected last fall.

Subsequently, Mr. Langley was indicted for drunkenness.

"I shall go direct to London and consult with my old friend and neighbor of Corning, N. Y., Mr. Houghton, and shall proceed thence to Berlin without stopping at Paris."

So Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) President of Cornell, onetime (1921-25) Minister to China, taking ship for his new post in the Embassy at Berlin.

"So far, I think that the foreign policy of President Coolidge has been successful; the settlement with Mexico, the refusal to recognize the Reds of Russia, the settlement of the Isle of Pines question have all added to our standing among the nations."

So Janies W. Gerard, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, onetime (1913-17) Ambassador to Germany, as he returned from Europe.

"In the name of God, Amen," wrote Thomas R. Marshall at the head of a blank piece of white paper. Below he wrote an instrument bequeathing all his worldly goods to his wife, Lois K. Marshall.

The will was probated last week. The estate amounted to $39,000.

In an old walnut coffin in the basement of Christ Episcopal Church at Winchester, Va., was found last week the body of Thomas Fairfax, Baron of Cameron. About 1746 he came to America. He hired a young man, George Washington, by name, to survey his estates. When he died, aged 90, in 1782, he had seen his young surveyor lead a successful revolution against his King.